Shekha of Amarsar, Rajput chieftain (died 1488)

Rao Shekha

Rajput ruler (1490–1545)

Maharao Shekha (1433–1488) was a 15th-century Rajput chieftain and the founder of the Shekhawati region in present-day Rajasthan, India. A member of the Kachhwaha dynasty of Amber, Shekha asserted his independence and established a principality centered at Amarsar around the…